The last week in January was relatively quiet at Ghost in My House Studio. This was actually a nice break after a few busy weeks completing Nick Shattuck's new album, Chorus & Verse. Nick has posted a handful of songs from the record on his Myspace, check them out by clicking here.
On Monday the weather was a bit unpleasant so I didn't end up doing my Decorah lesson, just spent extra time carefully driving home from work.
On Tuesday, Wigglepuppy drummer Jaran Carson came over for another rehearsal in preparation for our upcoming show on February 5th at JB's Speakeasy in La Crosse, WI with Porcupine, Dream 13 & ConQueso. I am really looking forward to this show and have really been enjoying Jaran and I getting more comfortable playing together now that we have had a couple of shows and few practices.
On Wednesday the physical copies of Animist arrived, so I spent a majority of the day distributing those to retailers and mailing out promotional copies. For more info on that check out last week's blog post "Animist gets Physical". I also received the additional external hard-drive I ordered for the studio and am happy to say that I am now double-backed up.
Thursday was spent working and Friday was mostly spent taking a continuing education test in Rochester. I did get some time in the afternoon to test out some new kick drum beaters I ordered and am really preferring the attack of the wood-beater at this point, haven't had a chance to record with it yet though. I also had time to continue working on a new song entitled Reactions Inertia. I can't decide if I should do it on guitar or the Casio keyboard as I do want to force myself to branch out musically as much as possible for the next record.
Saturday and Sunday were spent doing errands, chores and working on home improvement projects.
Balance is key to an enjoyable life and this week was a nice break from studio work that has allowed me some time to rest my ears and plot the next project.
The Casio Keyboard gets my vote.
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